Chapter 10: If I Were King of the Forest

The gang rushed to a door the citizens of Oz were crowded at as a Wookiee in a red utility harness was holding them back.
"Here!" The figure called out. "Here, here! Everything is alright! Stop that now! Everything is alright! It's alright! The Great and Powerful Oz has got matters well in hand... I hope. So you can all go home, and there's nothing to worry about. Go on home. Go home."
As the crowd dispersed, the group walked up to the guard.
"If you please sir," Siri said calmly. "We wanna see the Wizard right away. All four of us."
"Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz!" The guard barked. "Not nobody! Not no how!"
"But please, it's very important!" Siri pleaded.
"And I got gussied up just for the occasion." Chewbacca added.
"Not nobody! Not no how!" The guard repeated.
"But she's Siri!" Ben blurted out, pointing at Siri.
"The witch's Siri?" The guard asked before looking her up and down and noticing the Ruby Slippers. "Well, that makes a difference. Just wait here. I'll announce you at once."
The guard then walked through the door.
"Did you hear that?" Ben asked. "He'll announce us at once! I've as good as got my brain!"
"I can barely hear my heart beating!" Vader remarked excitedly.
"I'll be home in time for supper!" Siri pointed out just as excited.
"In another hour, I'll be king of the forest!" Chewbacca remarked. "Long live the king!"
If I were King of the Forest,
Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the forest,
Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.
I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl.
With a woof and a woof and a royal growl - woof.
As I'd click my heel, all the trees would kneel.
And the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow.
And the sparrow would take wing - If I - If I - were King!
Each rabbit would show respect to me.
The chipmunks genuflect to me.
Though my tail would lash,
I would show compash
For every underling!
If I - If I - were King!
Just King!
The group then helped dress Chewbacca up as a king as they smiled.
Monarch of all I survey.
Mo-na-a-a-a-arch of all I survey!
"Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anybody?" Siri asked with a smile.
"Not nobody!" Chewbacca remarked proudly. "Not no how!"
"Not even a rhinoceros?" Vader asked.
"Impossiros." Chewbacca remarked with a smirk.
"How about a hippopotamus?" Siri asked.
"Why I'd trash him from top to bottomus." Chewbacca remarked again.
"Supposing you met an elephant?" Siri went on.
"I'd wrap him up and sell himphant." Chewbacca went on.
"What if you met a brontosaurus?" Ben went on.
"I'd show him who's king of the forest!" Chewbacca finished.
"How?" The group asked at once.
"How?!" Chewbacca asked aghast. "Courage. What makes a king out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on the mast still wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusks in the misty mist or the dusty dust? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage. What makes the dawn come up like thunder?! Courage. What makes the Hottentots so hot? What puts the ape in apricot?! WHAT HAVE THEY GOT THAT I HAVEN'T GOT?!"
"Courage." The other three said.
"You can say that again." Chewbacca said with a chuckle before stopping. "Wait."
Just then, the guard burst in.
"The wizard says go away!" The guard shouted as he returned to his post."
"Go away?" Everyone asked, dejected.
"Looks like we've come a long way for nothing." Ben said as he shoulders bowed in embarrassment at coming at all.
"Oh, and I was so happy!" Siri sobbed, thinking about Master Adi and what the Revanchist had said. "I thought I was going home!"
"Don't cry, Siri." Vader said, trying to comfort her. "We're gonna get you to the Jedi."
"We certainly are!" Ben agreed, no one knowing that the guard had begun listening to the poor girl crying.
"Master Adi was so good to me." Siri went on, unable to control herself. "And I never appreciated her. Running away and hurting her feelings. The Revanchist said she was sick... She may be dying, and it's all my fault!"
The guard continued to blubber as the three try to comfort Siri.
"Oh, I'll never forgive myself!" Siri wept. "Never, never, never."
"Oh, please don't cry anymore!" The guard blubbered. "I'll get you into the Wizard somehow! I had a Master Adi myself, once!"
The guard continued to blubber and cry as he let them in.

Oh... That was so sweet!